“It’s an unfortunate misunderstanding and a heat-of-the-moment type of thing. It’s one of those things I’m not proud of, the way I handled it, and I look forward to growing as a person and moving forward from it.”

After Tuesday’s practice Blake met with Lance Jackson, the fan he verbally assaulted. Lance Jackson and his father Steve Jackson are longtime courtside season-ticket holders and they are well known and liked by the Lakers organization. The Jackson’s regularly have players over at their home to practice and entire team practices have been held at their private home court.

Blake added:

“It was an emotional game for me, losing a third game in a row and this and that, but there are no excuses. It was just a spur-of-the-moment bad decision.”

Steve Blake is a 10-year veteran of the NBA, and he has never had any other on-court altercations with his NBA fans.